Ben Klemens

Computational social scientist doing math for a better world. But I mostly use Twitter for one-liners. Masto: @[email protected]

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

🧆The🧆best🧆Muppet🧆dialogue🧆ever🧆

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

@sxsw I witnessed this, and it might be better to be direct and say a driver killed a pedestrian. The driver was going full speed and I saw no brake lights. It's great that @SXSW has done so much to limit the damage drivers can do; please keep pushing for more.

https://t.co/qYLjNSQMLr

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

@JohnHolbein1 📷John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1·23h
Excellent paper!

I did a survey of journal requirements (let alone whether authors complied), and it was an excellent rate if 30% of journals in a field required data/code.
https://t.co/r1us5z3Y2k

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

[9/9] Looking forward to seeing what we can do with this new gadget. Around the world, does link concentration differ at different levels of economic development? How does increased link concentration affect other economic indicators? Is it something regulators should track?

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

[1/9, but lots of interesting info, plus a new paper alert] A typical "corporation" isn't really a single entity, but a collection of independent business entities. There are 2 million entities in the USA, forming a network of owners/subs. It's a wild network.
#EconTwitter

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

[8/9] It's not often that you have a more-or-less law of nature with a well-defined, measurable
parameter. Here's my paper going into great detail on this simple point: https://t.co/oTh1viaN3R

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

@CaltechEconThry I am intrigued. Are the decks complete?

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

The #1 thing I got out of a few weeks in Japan: how much everything changes when street parking isn't a thing.

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

The American urban planner cannot grasp how cool it would be to walk down a narrow pedestrian street with a bunch of lit up signs

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

@RockyNPS I'd like to camp at your beautiful park next month, but I'd like to do my part for the environment by not taking a private car. Any suggestions on how I can get to you from Boulder? Thx!

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

@ezracycle By one count, there are vehicle-into-building crashes up to sixty times a day: https://t.co/DsXALmheXX

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

In the 1700s, the British imposed their religious rituals and beliefs on their American subjects—but no more! Today, on Independence Day, we celebrate freedom from the Imperial system!

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

If you didn't read our article about the origins of agent-based modeling because of the paywall, let's see if this link works: https://t.co/X4RS0wVdl4

[pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee]

This, and the whole Overlooked series has been so interesting.

https://t.co/reO0lIwIXG

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

I love it when nerds get their due. Here's a piece about the person who designed and ran the first agent-based model---with a checkerboard, in his dissertation about his time in Japanese-American internment camps.

https://t.co/g32gUlyJSO
#selfpromotion

[Ben Klemens @b__k]

You know how Mastodon accounts are really ActivityPub nodes, which can interact with any other ActivityPub node? Same for WordPress sites: https://t.co/wiCSHFqOkv